Me, Myself And Prague

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I tripped across the Charles Bridge just before first light, all alone apart from a sleepy pickpocket just clocking on for the morning shift, my heels clacking on the cobblestones, the early morning sky a beautiful deep blue. Armed only with a romantic soul & a pressing need to escape her overbearing family, Rachael Weiss heads for Prague in search of her Bohemian roots, with vague plans to write the next great Australian novel & perhaps, just perhaps, fall madly in love with an exotic Czech man with high cheekbones. They make it seem so easy, those other women who write of uprooting themselves from everything they know, crossing the world & forming effortless friendships with strangers, despite not understanding a word they say, while reinventing themselves in beautiful European cities. So it`s not surprising that Rachael is completely unprepared for the realities that confront her in her strange new world. Initially starry-eyed, she quickly has to grapple with perplexing plumbing, extraordinarily rude checkout chicks, & the near-incomprehensible Czech language. In this warm & witty tale of life in a foreign l&, Rachael, somewhat to her own surprise, finds herself gradually creating a second home in Prague, complete with an eccentric & unlikely tribe of extended family & friends; & realises along the way that while she`s been striving so hard to become someone else, she has inadvertently grown to rather like the person she has always been. Me, Myself & Prague is a sweet & surprising memoir of discovering hope, self, family & friendship, Czech-style.